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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: are you interested in number theory AND programming
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 23:11:37 +0100
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James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> writes:
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> On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 11:02:49 PM UTC+7, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> The first 10 solution sets this program finds are:
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> Nitpick on terminology:  The quadruplets we are talking about are
> SOLUTIONS, not "solution sets."  The Solution Set would be the
> set of all possible solution quadruplets.

My program does not look for these solution quadruplets.  It looks for
solutions to ab(a+b) and groups them by equal value.  That's why I
called them "solution sets".  There is a filter in main that removes all
those "sets" that have only one member.

-- 
Ben.